Improved mail-bag



UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIcE.

JOHN FYE, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND VJOHN F. SUTHERLAND, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED MAIL-BAG.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,416, dated June 5, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN FYE, ot Hamilton, in the county ot' Butler and State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Mail-Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the mailbag with the cover attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional view ofthe cover. Fig. 3 is a sectional view ot' the top of the bag upon which the cover tits. Fig. et is a sectional view of the bottoni ot' the bag.

The outside of the body ot' the bag (shown at A) is made ot' heavy canvas, such as is commonly used for that purpose. The bottom B is round, or may be oval, and made of heavy leather, faced with sheet metal and strongly riveted, and the canvas tirmlyattached by sewing, riveting, or otherwise.

The whole bag is provided with a lining, O, composed of water-proof' or elastic gum-cloth, the bottoni D ot' which is securedbetween two circular plates and stron glyriveted. A weight, E, is secured to the inside of the plate D to cause it to descend into the outer bag.

At the top (shown in Fig. 3) the outside A and lining (l are united, a steel ring or band about three inches wide is interposed between A and C, and the whole covered with a wide band of leather, F, which is doubled over, as shown in Fig. 3, and strongly riveted, as shown at F.

Handles G are attached to the4 body of the bag, as shown in Fig. l, but they are only fastened to the canvas A, leaving t-he lining C free to be lifted wholly out, for the purpose of certainly removing the entire contents ot' the bag. The cover, Fig. 2, and H, Fig. 1, is composed of several pieces, a steel ring, I, a head of leather, J, which is bent down and around the steel ring or hoop I, and upon the outside of these anindia-rubber-cloth apron, K, and still outside of this another band ot' brass, L. These are all iirinly riveted together, as shown at M, Fig. 2.

The top J is strengthened by a plate,N, which also serves to hold an elastic packingsheet, O, inplace, being strongly secured by rivets. rlhe top is disconnected with the bag, and when being illed is thrown entirely open, but when the bag is closed the cover is secured in its place by a broad iron or metallic clasp, P, a staple, and lock. Vheu the cover is pressed down firmly upon the top F the packing O renders the bag water-tight.

In filling the bag thc cover is taken ot't and the bag may be suspended by one or both the upper handles. In emptying it the lining is turned inside outward, and thus it is impossiblc to leave any mail matter behind.

lEhe outside canvas covering A, the bottom B, and the top H protect the water-proof lining C from injury.

A bag made in this form and having this construction is more convenient and durable than those ot' the usual form, besides wholly securing the mail matter against the possibil ity of being injured by water.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction of the mouth of the bag, as shown at F, in combination with the cover,

as shown in Fig. 2, and the weight at the bot# tom of the lining D, t'or the purposes set forth. 1n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FYE.

Witnesses:

D. P. HoLLowAY, EDUARD J. FRAZIER. 

